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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
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Zora N. Hurston
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
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